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On Tuesday, the city inaugurated a new marina that will host the Olympic sailing events. Ten football matches will also be played at the Stade Vélodrome.
Four windsurfing sails are dried in the shed. Next to it, an athlete from Team France surrounds himself with the hardware box of his 470. Up ahead, wrapped in their grey sleeves, two 49ers await, an ultra-fast boat that was on the road to the Olympic Field in 2000 in Sydney. On the first construction site of the Pôle Olympique voile Marseille, six other young people occupy the seats of the “tea shop” overlooking the Frioul Islands. On the walls, photographs of the champions who will make up the French team. They are the first to use the new Olympic marina, specially built and refurbished at the former Roucas-Blanc nautical base for the Paris 2024 events.
The inauguration of the venue will take place on Tuesday, April 2, opening the countdown to the arrival of the Olympic flame aboard the three-masted Belem, to the Old Port of Marseille, on May 8. The last progression paintings were finished on Wednesday the 27th. March, and we can still see the protective grilles and a few engine structures, the position is ready.
The marina of about 7,000 m2 built around a remodeled water frame and over 17,000 m2 of launching land, garage and parking. The brushed white concrete complex, lightened through gigantic glass roofs and pillars, is composed of 4 buildings with a sublime and sober appearance. Look: two of them will space the technical workshops of the city and associations related to nautical practices and the coverage of diversity.
The Municipal Sailing Centre is located in the centre of the arch that crosses the buildings with its study rooms named after the winds (Sirocco, Tramontana, Levante), its reception area, its conversion rooms and its ticket offices. Just before the French Sailing Federation (FFV), a huge boathouse with high ceilings that allow you to store sailboats without having to dismast them. ” The marina is an exclusive tool that will allow you to exercise in wonderful comfort even after the Games,” enthuses Mathilde Mermod, according to communication for the FFV. The fitness center can accommodate up to 180 athletes.
The installation will cost €49. 2 million, in addition to €31 million for maritime works. The water frame had to be excavated, tons of contaminated silt evacuated to make it navigable back and an existing one to return to. “We will have two stadiums in Marseille, the Velodrome and the Marina. We need to make the sea, this long-forgotten plant detail, as proud as football,” says Hervé Menchon, Deputy Mayor of Marseille. reprovideative (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts) aims to turn the new marina into an ecological emblem of the city.
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